FlowingData - What 3-D pie charts are good for

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Contents: What 3-D pie charts are good for Profile of the Facebook Data Science Team What 3-D pie charts are good for Jun 15, 2012 01:16 am  •  Permalink 3-D pie charts are never a good idea? Ha. You just got served. Profile of the Facebook Data Science Team Jun 14, 2012 11:05 am  •  Permalink MIT Technology Review profiles the Facebook Data Science Team, described as a gathering of grad students at a top school and headed by Cameron Marlow, the "young professor." Back at Facebook, Marlow isn't the one who makes decisions about what the company charges for, even if his work will shape them. Whatever happens, he says, the primary goal of his team is to support the well-being of the people who provide Facebook with their data, using it to make the service smarter. Along the way, he says, he and his colleagues will advance humanity's understanding of itself. That echoes Zuckerberg's often doubted but seemingly genuine belief that Facebook's job is to improve how the world communicates. Just don't ask yet exactly what that will entail. "It's hard to predict where we'll go, because we're at the very early stages of this science," says ­Marlow. "The number of potential things that we could ask of Facebook's data is enormous." More to read: River flow simulation Evolution of movie poster colors Network of data visualization references Geography of the basketball court, interactive edition Working in America over the decades  follow on Twitter | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2012 FlowingData, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in on FlowingData. Our mailing address is: FlowingData PO Box 3381 Livermore, CA 94550 Add us to your address book  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences